HELP! iPhoto 2 -when I click on an album, it erases my pics!

What is happening? When we click on an album to look at the pics, it shows the number of photos going down from 30, or whatever, down to 0 and then we can't find the pics anywhere?! Anybody have an idea what's going on? thanks!

Susan:
As a first step run iPhoto Extractor on your iPhoto Library folder to copy the full sized image files to the three new folders that get created. You can then make sure you have all of your photos and the loss of photos in iPhoto is primarily the links to them in the database.
Then launch iPhoto with the CommandOptionShift keys depressed and follow the instructions to rebuild the library. That will rebuild the database and thumbnails and may get them all back into the library. (Rebuilding also create a new library folder, "iPhoto Library_1". If it works then you can trash the original folder. If not, trash the new one. Then you may have to create a new library and import the photos from the three folders created by iPhoto Extractor. Do not try to import from the old iPhoto Library folder. You will get all of the thumbnail files as normal files and really clog up the new library.
OT

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